As a free country, our story has been shaped by every language and enriched by every culture. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, Sikhs and non-believers. Our patchwork heritage is a strength we owe to our religious freedom.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration, obviously combatting religious freedom, appeals a court order allowing a Christian publishing company from complying with the contraception mandate. Tyranny!

Bob Smietana reports: The Rev. Larry Tomczak, a strong proponent of corporal punishment, is charged with 25 years of physically abusing of a woman since her childhood.

The left, which is largely made up of people who don’t believe in Jesus Christ’s blood as being necessary for our salvation, view inanimate objects as possessing their own will. That’s animism, that’s a return to the most pagan of paganism and look at what nutty political views it ends up supporting.

Only a foolish atheism would let itself be judged by the standard that religion long ago set for itself. The criterion of reasonableness is not pleasantness. The price you’d pay for consolation shouldn’t be set by your false terrors. Let the terrorizers of humanity sell their consolations somewhere else.

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Paul Fidalgo has been communications director of the Center for Inquiry since 2012. He holds a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University, and has worked previously for FairVote: The Center for Voting and Democracy and the Secular Coalition for America. Paul is also an actor and musician whose work includes five years performing with the American Shakespeare Center. He lives in Maine with his wife and kids. His blog at the Patheos network is iMortal, and he tweets at @paulfidalgo.